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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Honey Cocoa Cake with Fudge Frosting

This cake recipe comes from the 1939 edition of The American Woman's Cookbook. It was the cake I asked for as a birthday cake for years. It always crumbles a little. It is not a terribly moist cake. Honey tends to dry things out, in my opinion. However, the fudge frosting, which comes from a vintage Eagle Brand Milk recipe booklet, matched up perfectly with the cake. Mom always made a round two layer cake for me. After making the fudge frosting recipe, I realized that Mom must have at least doubled that recipe, if not tripled it because the layers of frosting were THICK! In my photos, I only had enough frosting for the top and middle and the thickness was mediocre at best. The taste, though, was just as wonderful as ever. There are a lot of happy birthdays wrapped up in this cake.